Religion: Election

In the Bethlehem Chapel of the unfinished Washington Cathedral
gathered 94 Protestant Episcopal Bishops, to elect a successor to the
late Presiding Bishop John Gardner Murray (TIME, Oct. 14).

As the procession of elderly men filed down the steps into the Gothic
chapel, those who had not been there before read the inscription above
the door: "The Way of Peace." Inside the vaulted, half-underground chapel they stared curiously at the tombs of Woodrow
Wilson, Admiral Dewey, Associated Pressman Melville E. Stone. They sat
down in, armchairs facing the altar and their vice-chairman and secretary,...